Alternate Tunings

Well, you're only changing one string for drop C or D... so after you get the fretboard down it isn't too much of a problem.

Tunings that change two or more strings are tougher to deal with. Double-drop tunings aren't too bad (because both E strings are changed, and they'll be the same notes two octaves apart). If you're going to do some specialized tunes like Celtic music, which often uses DADGAD, you'll end up learning the new tuning - which still has three strings you'll know.

For more extreme tunings, I usually play slide :)

thank you.

And if you're doing lowered tunings such as you'll find in many bands for the past then years, where the intervals are still like standard tuning but the strings are all lowered, you will need to rethink things, but not as badly as you might imagine.

For instance, if you've got everything lowered to C (two whole steps lower than standard) so that (from low to high) you're tuned:

C F Bb Eb G C

The notes here are the same as they'd be at the eighth fret in standard tuning. That's the note names, by the way. Obviously the notes themselves are an octave lower in pitch. Notes at the first fret have the same name as the ones at the ninth fret in standard tuning (again an octave lower).

Once you get to the fourth fret, which would be E, you'll be back in familiar territory. It may seem confusing at first, but it's a "head slapper" when you think about it for a minute.

Hope this helps.

Peace

thanks again. ill keep on working at it.

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